[R] tcltk2 entry box

[Matthew McCormack]

Wow !  Very nice.  Thank you very much, John.  This is very helpful and 
just what I need.
Yes, I can see that I should have paid attention to tcltk before going 
to tcltk2.

Matthew

On 7/8/2015 8:37 PM, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Matthew,
>
> For file selection, see ?tcltk::tk_choose.files or ?tcltk::tkgetOpenFile .
>
> You could enter a number in a tk entry widget, but, depending upon the
> nature of the number, a slider or other widget might be a better choice.
>
> For a variety of helpful tcltk examples see
> <http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/tcltk/>, originally by James Wettenhall but
> now maintained by Philippe Grosjean (the author of the tcltk2 package). (You
> probably don't need tcltk2 for the simple operations that you mention, but
> see ?tk2spinbox for an alternative to a slider.)
>
> Best,
>   John
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
>> Sent: July-08-15 8:01 PM
>> To: r-help
>> Subject: [R] tcltk2 entry box
>>
>> Is anyone familiar enough with the tcltk2 package to know if it is
>> possible to have an entry box where a user can enter information (such
>> as a path to a file or a number) and then be able to use the entered
>> information downstream in a R script ?
>>
>> The idea is for someone unfamiliar with R to just start an R script that
>> would take care of all the commands for them so all they have to do is
>> get the script started. However, there is always a couple of pieces of
>> information that will change each time the script is used (for example,
>> a different file will be processed by the script). So, I would like a
>> way for the user to input that information as the script ran.
>>
>> Matthew McCormack
>>
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